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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Sri Lanka—A tribute to Com. Shanmugathasan

I received these
articles from the Ceylon Communist Party Maoist and decided to publish one of
them now and I will publish the other at a later time, probably in a few days.-សតិវអតុ

Dear Comrades.

Com.
Shanmugathasan was a great communist Maoist leader in Sri Lanka. And He was a
first leader of the CCP Maoist (Ceylon communist party). He wrote many
documents and articles for revolutionaries, and his famous book "Hold High
the RED BANNER" was widely spread over the world. He was also founding
member of the Revolutionary International Movement (RIM) and worked as a great
internationalist for world proletariat revolution. His last works were done in
the London to defend the Chairman Gonzalo. These (one of) two articles were published
in A World To Win after his death.

With
Revolutionary Greetings.

Com. Parakrama

Maoist Revolutionary League

Long
Live Com.

N.Shanmugathasan

He
was a founding leader (general secretary) of Ceylon communist Party (CCP),
later it became as CCP (Maoist). He was fighting to defend Cultural Revolution
and against revisionist capitalist roaders of china. Com. Shan was beloved
leader among the workers, peasants, intellectuals, revolutionaries and Maoists
comrades of Sri Lanka. He firmly rejects the parliamentary road and his party
line targeted to armed revolution and the party was underground decades. So it
spread widely on the country as well as northern and southern, after the death
of Com. Shanmugathasan the party becomes to liquidation due to revisionist
activities of later leaders. He was one of the live connections of GPCR
in the RIM.

On the
Death of Comrade Sanmugathasan

-
Statement by the Committee of the RIM

15 February 1993

It was with great grief that the
Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement learned of the death
of Comrade N. Sanmugathasan, General Secretary of the Ceylon Communist Party
(Maoist) on 8 February at the age of 74 of natural causes.

Comrade Sanmugathasan devoted his life
to the goal of achieving communism. He was a widely respected public figure in
Sri Lanka and loved by broad sections of workers, peasants, revolutionary
intellectuals and progressives. His life was intertwined with the history of
the revolutionary movement in Sri Lanka and the international communist
movement. As he put it, "I became a Communist in 1939 and never looked
back."

Comrade Sanmugathasan participated in
the struggle to establish a genuine Communist Party in what was then colonial
Ceylon. He fought against the Trotskyites that had dominated the Left movement
in that country. He was an ardent defender of the accomplishments of the
proletariat of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin.

Comrade Sanmugathasan was one of the
first Communist leaders to rally around Mao Tsetung and the Communist Party of
China in the great struggle against Khrushchevite revisionism. Comrade
Sanmugathasan defended the need for the revolutionary violence of the masses
and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Comrade Sanmugathasan was an ardent
defender of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China. On the basis of
discussions with Mao Tsetung and other revolutionary leaders of the CPC,
Comrade Sanmugathasan prepared a pamphlet entitled, "Hold High the Bright
Red Banner of Mao Tsetung Thought". This publication, widely circulated
throughout the world, helped popularize and spread some of the important
teachings of Mao Tsetung.

In 1971 Comrade Sanmugathasan was
imprisoned for one year by the reactionary regime in Sri Lanka.

In 1976 following the coup d'etat in
China after Mao's death, Comrade Sanmugathasan was among the first to oppose
the new revisionist rulers. When Enver Hoxha attacked Mao Tsetung Thought,
Comrade Sanmugathasan stood firm while many others wavered.

Comrade Sanmugathasan attended both the
First and Second International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and
Organizations which resulted in the formation of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement. Comrade Sanmugathasan played an important role in
this process, both through struggling hard for those positions he held firmly
and in his striving for unity with others.

Comrade Sanmugathasan was one of the few
living links between the revolutionaries who came forward under the influence
of the Cultural Revolution in China and those who had come forward in earlier
great battles. His maturity and staunchness was an important alloy in the
forging of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement whose formation he
hailed as a "milestone in the history of the international communist
movement".

Comrade Sanmugathasan was a vigourous
opponent of the Sri Lankan government's war against the Tamil people in the
North and East of the island.

In 1991 Comrade Sanmugathasan personally
convoked and led an important conference of the Ceylon Communist Party
(Maoist). Thus, even as his health was failing, and putting the cause of the
proletariat and the revolution above personal interest, Comrade Sanmugathasan
took an active role in promoting a new generation of leadership and assuring
the future of the Party.

Comrade Sanmugathasan was an
enthusiastic supporter of the People's War in Peru. His last public act was to
speak at the first press conference in London of the International Emergency
Committee to Defend the Life of Dr Abimael Guzmán, of which he was a founder.

Throughout his long lifetime of
revolutionary service to the proletariat and the people, Comrade Sanmugathasan
never lost confidence in the ultimate triumph of the cause of communism.
Although crucial problems of the revolution in Sri Lanka were not resolved in
Comrade Sanmugathasan's lifetime, he laid down vital building blocks which the
communists, proletariat and people of Sri Lanka will use in advancing toward
their liberation.

The Committee of the Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement extends its deepest sympathy to the Ceylon Communist
Party (Maoist), and to the family and friends of Comrade N. Sanmugathasan. We
are sure that the Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) will honour the memory of
Comrade Sanmugathasan by carrying forward in deeds the cause to which he
dedicated his life.

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